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CVE-2007-1457

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2007-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the urarlib_get function in Christian Scheurer UniquE RAR File Library (unrarlib, aka URARFileLib) 0.4 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long (1) filename, (2) rarfile, or (3) libpassword argument.

Affected products

• Christian Scheurer Unrarlib: 0.4
• Christian Scheurer Urarfilelib: 0.4

References

• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=117392197607422&w=2
• http://osvdb.org/34076
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24472
• http://unrarlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/unrarlib/tags/unrarlib040/unrarlib/unrarlib.c?revision=3&view=markup
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22942
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0961
• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=117392197607422&w=2
• http://osvdb.org/34076
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24472
• http://unrarlib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/unrarlib/tags/unrarlib040/unrarlib/unrarlib.c?revision=3&view=markup
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22942
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0961

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